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Governor would not like to see is there are a lot of people driving around, trying to assess the damage themselves. people have left their homes. it is dry now, which is unusual. i finally dried off after a day of being soaked. it is dry, so people think they can drive around but it is not safe. scenes like the one you saw with the downed power lines everywhere. people need to be very, very careful before trying to either return home or trying to get a look around. now is not the time for that. ...

Finished. i think everybody should do it locally, federal and state, say what can we do better. this was a big storm. this was a big storm. weve got significant damage. well find out over time. >> one more question. >> there are several prison and detention facilities in this area. some of them made arrangements before hand. not all of them did. have you heard from those facilities in doc. whats their status now thats its starting to clear out? >> weve heard some different corrections and prison...

Locally, federal and state. and if people were ready, and you have seen a lot of the videos out there, this is a big storm, and they have significant damage in some places. >> there have been several detention and prison facilities in this area and some made arrangements before hand but not all of them dead. have you heard from those facilities, -- speak out with hundreds of different in prison facilities, and -- , we are seng

That? and the trump administration has not been able to answer those very basic questions. other basic questions such as how do you know if any of these kids have food allergies? what if they have certain medical ailments that need treatment? they cant answer those questions as well. >> as you know, some of the eyes that have gone to the detention center, yourself, there are detention centers in southern california, and there are some unaccompanied children there in southern california right now...

Put your heart strings and humanity to the side. lets talk dollars. welcome back. president trumps tough talk on immigration and his policies, they are costing you and me taxpayers millions and millions of dollars, and they are making some companies filthy rich. since 1997, the federal bureau of prisons has paid private companies to build and operate prison facilities to ease capacity at government-run facilities. and then share of federal prisoners night wide held in private prisons has surged ...

Families are held together, they could be held on a prolonged basis in prison facilities. weve all seen the pictures of children being held in cages in recent days. theres nothing in this new executive order that would prevent that. >> it is important to keep the kids together with their mothers and fathers. >> absolutely. but what theyre doing is substituting one bad policy for another. the public outrage is what we should be giving credit to in terms of turning this policy around. its not that...

Effectively these kids are incarcerated inside the shelter. >> that is what life is like for the kids. you went in your state washington to see some of the moms. give us a sense what you saw, what you experienced and what they told you. >> it was heartbreaking. there are 1,600 individuals who have been transferred from the southern border to federal bureau of prison facilities across the country. one is in my home state just south of seattle. there are 206 individuals being detained there. i met...

Penalties, invoking troubling echoes of the 1980s rush to imprison drug dealers for years or decades with negligible impact on drug abuse. how effective are tougher sentences as a deterrent. >> we already learned this lesson in the 80s and 90s when we imposed mandatory minimums. automatic sentences when you have cases like drugs that were a firearm is involved. the experiment in large part has failed. mandatory minimums flat -- i mean floors for sentences for drug offenders just populates our pr...

The -- theres a lot of seismic activity. also its just basic facilities. the city has collapsed. theres not much electricity in much of the city. traffic has collapsed. so basic getting water, getting food is a concern for people and authorities. the authorities also dealing with things like hospitals being damaged, schools have collapsed with children, prison facilities damaged. so theres just an overwhelming number of things they have to watch for the next 24 hours. theres also the concern abo...

Assessments about injuries, people who are missing, anything? >> so there were rumors early on, and i they v think theyre still out there, that some people didnt come off the islands and potentially are in trouble, but i think the govern governors going to have more information on that. my last report was first responders were going in early this morning to try to find some of these people and attempt some rescue efforts. but well see what happens when the dpof nor comes out. >> there are three ...